[Users] ovirt 3.1 vnc passwordless setup

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/19/2012 11:07 PM, Alexandru Vladulescu wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
>
> I am running Ovirt 3.1 (fresh install -- no upgrade) on some Centos 6.3
> servers; and I did a small setup regarding 2 hypervisors, 1 node
> controller and 1 NAS server providing NFS export, storage & ISO domains
> for the appliances.
>
> All this solution has one server more that's acting as a firewall and
> traffic policy shaping in front of the network setup.
>
> The problem that I am facing right now, is that I am trying to setup
> Ovirt on VNC remote connection in the manner that does not require
> password login with 120 seconds expiration timeout. Somehow I would like
> to map VNC ports on the 2 hypervisor nodes to bond with a vnc reflector
> installed on the node controller, which also acts as a VPN server on the
> setup for out-band connections.
>
> Therefore, users connecting over VPN could get access to the VNC of the
> VMs without entering the web portal and requiring an active VNC password
> with 120 seconds expiration time.
>
> I tried digging through the libvirtd.conf and qemu.conf configuration
> files, found some VNC parameters but none seemed to do the job for my
> purpose. I must mention that I have been looking for a similar setup on
> the Ovirt documentation page as well as googlin' it.
>
>
> You help will be much appreciated.
>
>
> My regards,
> Alex Vladulescu
>
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the guest console (VNC or SPICE) temp password is dubbed a 'ticket'.
you can SetVmTicket via the REST API, python/java sdk, or the 
ovirt-shell from engine or any remote machine.